A semiannual payment bond with a $1,000 par has a 7% coupon rate, a 6% YTM, and 5 years to...
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A semiannual payment bond with a $1,000 par has a 7% coupon rate, a 6% YTM, and 5 years to maturity. What is the bond's duration?
Bond Duration:
Bond duration is a statistics that measures a bond's interest rate risk, i.e., how sensitive bond value is with respect to changes in interest rate. Two commonly used Duration measures are the Macaulay duration and the modified duration.
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View this answerThe duration of the bond is 4.32 years.
We can use the following formula to compute the Macaulay duration:
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Chapter 3 / Lesson 6Interest rate risk is really the risk of two different events (price reduction and reinvestment rate reduction) caused by a change in interest rates. Interest rate risk affects bond investments, but the good news for bond investors is that it can be mitigated or eliminated.
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